Accusative Definition
accusative
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From French adjective accusatif, from Latin accusativus, from accusatus, perfect passive participle of accusare, + adjective suffix -ivus. See accuse.
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Adjective
accusative (not comparable)
- Producing accusations; accusatory; accusatorial; a manner that reflects a finding of fault or blame
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- This hath been a very accusative age — Sir E. Dering
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- (grammar) Applied to the case (as the fourth case of Latin and Greek nouns) which expresses the immediate object on which the action or influence of a transitive verb has its limited influence. Other parts of speech, including secondary or predicate direct objects, will also influence a sentence’s construction. In German the case used for direct objects.
Noun
accusative (plural accusatives)
- (grammar) The accusative case.
Translations
accusative case
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French
Adjective
accusative f.
- feminine form of accusatif
Latin
Noun
accūsātīve
- vocative singular of accūsātīvus
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The accusative case (abbreviated acc) of a noun is the grammatical case used to mark the direct object of a transitive verb. The same case is used in many languages for the objects of (some or all) prepositions. It is a noun that is having something done to it, usually joined (such as in Latin) with the nominative case, making it an indirect object.
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